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What does /lit/ think?

>> No.1682841

implying the boring nobodies who read cyberpunk are actually descript

>> No.1682843

Black satire of the highest polish.

>> No.1682850

I thought cyberpunks listened to loud techno remixes of Rammstein while wearing goggles & doing a ton of mushrooms & also not showering.

I may or may not be bitter from my high school days.

>> No.1682852

I think: no.

>> No.1682859

>>1682850

So, six of the people that went to my small high school...

>> No.1682862

lol cyberpunk?

losers who think they can justify dressing like a retard with "crazy hacker skills cuz its TEH FUTURE" shit

>> No.1682868

>>1682850

Nutty self-employed web designers that want to be goth, or vice versa

>> No.1682873

>>1682841

>D&E

>Complaining about boring nobodies

Am I seeing hypocrisy of the highest order here?

>> No.1682879
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Why do aspies humiliate themselves with this shit.

They act so shy and quiet and then they dress so absurdly aggressive and masculine, like decrepit transexuals.

>> No.1682882

I hate it when genre, in any medium, spawns fashion. Enjoying something is fine, even identifying with something is fine, but using something external as the primary source of your identity is phenomenally retarded.

Thankfully, its usually something that people grow out of, unless they're cashing in on it.

>> No.1682885

>>1682882

I didn't get laid until I started wearing deer leather and moccasins after I read Last of the Mohicans. Then I got pussy every night.

>> No.1682901

>>1682879

You considered a career in stand-up, boy?

>> No.1682903

The move to rock-and-rock inspired aesthetics was the worst thing to ever happen to cyberpunk. It made it trashy as all hell, and fundamentally discredited the more serious elements of the genre in favor of irrelevant fluff.

Gibson had been inspired by this type of visual apparently even while writing Neuromancer, but the rock-stylization never developed fully until Mirrorshades came along and the editor tried to equate rock with cyberpunk. One of the worst decisions ever, it really turned much of the genre into tripe

>> No.1682905

Cyberpunk "fashion" is retarded. Steampunk, on the other hand, is badass.

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>>1682905
pic related

>> No.1682908

>>1682905
when its done well, it has a neat aesthetic appeal,
when its done poorly, its equally as bad.

>> No.1682912

>>1682908
to add, 99% of the time, its done poorly
it can pretty much only be pulled off, by actual engineers.

>> No.1682914
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>>1682905

>Steampunk

>Badass

>> No.1682919

>>1682914
That's not badass to you? Shit son, do you hate everything?

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>>1682912
>>1682908

Steampunk usually looks like this.

>> No.1682929

>>1682912

Or by people who cut out all the fake machine shit and just dress in Victorian outfits that don't have fucking jetpacks and goggle glasses.

>> No.1682937

>>1682923
Looks more like Final Fantasy XII Balthier cosplay. Steampunk never looks good when fat people wear it though. All steampunk should be is wearing Victorian-era clothes and pocketwatches.

>> No.1682936

>>1682919
its a dog with spray-painted water bottles strapped to its back, no badassery here

>> No.1682939

>>1682905
>>1682908

Let's face it, dressing up like a fantasy character in general is just fucking gay.

Real men dress like real people, not playing dress-up like immature manchildren.

>> No.1682943

>>1682937
they're all LARPers
Fuck that shit, Take back the night.

>> No.1682944

>>1682939
Sour grapes because he can't pull it off.

>> No.1682946

>>1682937

>Final Fantasy

Oh, look, some pizza-eating lard who sits in his room jacking off and playing XBox all day. Too bad obsession with shitty video games won't get you a job.

>> No.1682953

>>1682923
oh god

Steampunk enthusiasts are the literary equivalent of weeboo fanboys. The genre might have had some redeeming factors maybe five years before getting picked up by the inbred fan-cults, but at this point it is just a pulpy universe alternative to high fantasy which turns everything it touches into shit. There is nothing interesting about seeing another monocle-wearing twit living in a world of machines designed by high school physics drop-outs.Steampunk is a complete joke at this point and it doesn't take much scrutiny to see that

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>>1682946

>> No.1682963
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>>1682953

The thing is, steampunk has some great literature, decent video games, and okay-ish films. None of which even actually considers itself steampunk. It's the people that want to slap that label all over everything or try to create self-consciously steampunk works who are ruining it. So then it gets co-opted by losers who can't realize their fat ass looks like shit in a tailcoat and top hat.

>> No.1682971

>>1682953
>There is nothing interesting about seeing another monocle-wearing twit living in a world of machines designed by high school physics drop-outs
There's not? Sounds pretty interesting to me.

>> No.1683082

>cyberpunk

>lifestyle

hahahaha oh wow let me laugh some more

>> No.1683210

>>1682963
That's because they don't do it right, the morons.
Looking Victorian is probably the best place for a fatass, if he is serious about it. Problem is, most don't care about their appearance enough to get it right.

>> No.1683823

CHALLENGING HAIRSTYLE, guys

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>>1683823

>CRUEL BOOTS

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>>1682953
>Steampunk enthusiasts are the literary equivalent of weeboo fanboys
HAHAHA dying laughing because it's true

>> No.1683867

>book about "Cyberpunk"

>picture of Goths

>one looks like a pedophile and the other looks like a writer for Bitch magazine

i don't think so

>> No.1684024

>>1682937
>Steampunk never looks good when fat people wear it though.

Nothing looks good when fat people wear it.

All fashion inherently looks better on fit, well proportioned people.

>> No.1684033

>>1683825
Did anyone else think that this photo was the feet of someone who just hung themselves?

It looks like the legs are in the air.

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>>1683825

>> No.1684368
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>>1683825

>> No.1684381

this book came out in 1995. when cyberpunk was already dead.

>> No.1684383

>>1682835
>No gibson
>No mirrored lens implants
>Guy looks like he lives in a trailer park and smells like cat piss.
>Girl looks like any other goth.
Fuck these guys, Jet Set Radio was closer to cyberpunk than them.

>> No.1684417

>>1684368
Oh, man. I read this excerpted in Playboy when it came out, but the issue was already old and I was probably in the 3rd grade raiding my grampa's Playboy stash.

I was like "the guy from SNL and The Jerk wrote this? WTF *is* this?"

Shopgirl sucked, but I love his play Picasso at the Lapin Agile